Spring reading challenge returns to Rosetown library
By Brittany Booth
Rosetown Librarian and Archivist
Wheatland Regional Library is running another two-month reading challenge for library users, called the Spring Into Reading Challenge.
Like all reading challenges, participants are encouraged to log their reading minutes and completed activities on wheatland.beanstack.org. Paper trackers will also be available at the library soon.
The challenge runs from April 1 to May 31 and offers three potential prizes, each valued at $100. So get ready to read, Rosetown.
Here is a look at some new titles available at the library:
Judge Stone by Viola Davis and James Patterson, thriller. In Union Springs, Ala., Judge Mary Stone is a local celebrity who holds her courtroom to the highest standard. Then she draws the biggest case Alabama has ever seen. Criminally, it is open and shut. Ethically, there is no middle ground. As she fights to determine the wisest course, Judge Stone will make history, or die trying.
The Bookstore Diaries by Susan Mallery, adult fiction. Jax needs control, always. Too bad she has power only over the Painted Lady Bookstore. No one else listens to a word she says. Still, she is living the bookworm dream until an unhappy accident erases the names from the bookshop lockboxes where the town keeps their diaries. That means the only way to find a diary’s owner is to read it. As secrets spill and scandals surface, life at the Painted Lady gets a lot more colourful and chaotic.
The Hope Keeper by Heather Webb, historical fiction. After the untimely death of her twin brother, a young jeweller is swept into the wealthy elite society of 1920s Washington, D.C., where she begins a toxic friendship with Evalyn Walsh McLean, the last woman to own the notorious Hope Diamond. When tragedy strikes, her fragile friendship is put to the test and she must face the truth about her brother’s death.
Game On by Navessa Allen, romance. Tyler Neumann has spent years looking for his father so he can destroy him. He will manipulate whoever he can to exact his revenge, including Stella McCormick. She is wealthy and privileged, everything Tyler hates. From the moment Stella sets eyes on Tyler, she knows he is the devil planning to make her life miserable. It is loathing at first sight, but love and hate are two sides of the same coin, and neither of them knows which is worse.
Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief by Benjamin Stevenson, mystery. Ernest Cunningham has spent the last few years solving murders, but a bank heist is a new one. He has never been a hostage before. The doors are chained shut, which means that when someone in the bank is murdered, everyone is a suspect. Can he solve the crime before the police kick down the door?